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>>> Education Institute <[log in to unmask]> 2/8/2007 12:26 PM >>> REGISTER TODAY for THIS month's line-up of Programs... THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY ________________________ Begins Monday, Feb. 12th, 8-week on-line course Beyond Google: Searching Faster and Smarter on the Web with Rita Vine You know about the "invisible" Web. You've heard about the limitations of even the "best" search engines. You understand how advertisers influence search results in popular search tools. You know that there is more to the Web than Google, but what other options are out there to find quality information on the open Web? How do you put that knowledge into practice to help you save time and search the Web more efficiently? Learn best practices for effective Web searching without leaving your desk! Designed by Canada's leading on-line searcher and trainer, this on-line program is designed for experienced Web searchers who want to expand their Web search horizons and go beyond search engines to other high quality sources of information. Participants will be introduced to a wide variety of resources and top Web starting points, and will discover the best ways to search them effectively. Wednesday, Feb. 14th, 3-4pm ET (12-1pm PT) Part of the RESEARCH METHODS SERIES Using Interviews as a Research Method in Your Library with Lisa M. Given - 1 hour AUDIO CONFERENCE This session will explore strategies for conducting effective interviews, including issues related to question design and preparation for data analysis. Related topics, such as implications for ethics review, how to use interviews alongside other methods, and data gathering methods will be discussed. Thursday, Feb. 15th, 3-4pm ET (12-1pm, PT) Placemaking: creating libraries as Public Spaces with Eric Stackhouse and Linda Arsenault - 1 hour WEB CONFERENCE Libraries can be great public spaces - contributing to the social, cultural and learning heart of a community. To make it happen, administrators and managers need a community-based process to engage all stakeholders in the concept, planning, and implementation. Find out how to proceed, based on the successful lessons learned from the Project for Public Spaces, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public place that build communities. The session will provide the principles of making great public spaces, providing real life examples, and suggesting methods to move forward with community consultation and planning. Begins Monday, Feb 19th, 6-week On-line Course Canadian Government Documents and Information on the Web with Jeff Moon Governments around the world have embraced the Web as a major publication tool for government documents, laws, statistics, and citizen-based information. Web-based government information is a great enhancement to a library collection -- if you know how to find and use these resources. Designed for general librarians and professionals without an extensive background searching for government information, this course will introduce you to key Canadian government information sources on the Internet. The program is focused primarily on Canadian Federal publications and related information. We'll cover a new topic in each week of this six-week program and provide exercises to help you practice using these resources effectively. Tuesday, Feb. 20th, 1-2pm ET (11am-12pm, PT) Part of the TECH TUESDAYS: TALKING WITH TECHIES Series Teaching Web Searching and Google with Greg Notess While Google dominates the search world, few know all of its search capabilities. Other search engines have much to offer as well. How can construct lesson plans and instructional goals when so much of it can change from one day to the next? This talk covers unique instructional issues with search engines and solutions. It looks at advantages, disadvantages, and techniques for hands-on training, demonstration sessions, and on-line screencasts for use in teaching others to search more effectively amidst the wealth of information on the Web. Wednesday, Feb. 21st, 3-4pm ET (12-1pm, PT) Part of the THE NEXT GENERATION CATALOGUE A SERIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, no.1 Social Discovery Systems with Beth Jefferson Our patrons are increasingly turning to the Web for rich, interactive, community-based experiences, that are often centered on the information and cultural products which are at the heart of our collections: books, current events, movies, and music. Many of our patrons spend a large portion of their leisure time interacting with each other on-line: rating, reviewing, discussing, tagging, and exploring new possibilities for reading, listening, and viewing. For many, it is the equivalent of what hanging out in a library and browsing the shelves and return carts once was. How can we combine libraries' traditional strengths with emerging social software trends to advance the interests and mission of libraries in a wired world? Beth will explore options for developing the social engagement of our communities from the local to the national level. Libraries are uniquely positioned to bring social search and discovery systems to mainstream audiences, and libraries could, if they came together, have a huge impact in the next phase of the Web. Thursday, Feb. 22nd, 3-4pm ET (12-1pm, PT) BQ Wit and Wisdom: Insights for Info Pros with Barbara Quint - 1 hour AUDIO CONFERENCE Prompted by the book edited a few years ago by Marylaine Block, The Quintessential Searcher: The Wit & Wisdom of Barbara Quint, this session features a fun and revealing interview with one of the information industry's icons -- Barbara Quint. Her wit and wisdom along with her insights and leading edge ideas are front and center during this interesting and illuminating talk. Friday, Feb. 23rd, 2-3pm ET (11am-12pm, PT) Ship to Shore: Looking at Immigration Records with Judith Argent - 1 hour AUDIO CONFERENCE Demystify Canadian and US Immigration records! Assist your researchers to locate their immigrant ancestors quickly using easily available sources. This session will assist participants to understand why these records are so important to genealogy research, where the records are, and how to access them. Sources of genealogy information in the official records of the nineteenth and twentieth century immigration to Canada and the US will be explored. Passenger and immigration lists are only part of the story! The speaker, Judith Argent, draws on her many years of researching family history and library reference work to present this seminar. Monday, Feb. 26th, 3-4:30pm ET (12-1:30pm, PT) Roving Reference: The Continuing Saga with Joan Giannone - 1.5 hours AUDIO CONFERENCE Back by popular demand, this session is a sequel to the popular audio session featured in October, 2006, this time focusing on what Library staff want and need to know in order to Rove more comfortably and effectively. Did you know that over 50% of your library users may never approach the desk to ask for the help they need? These "hidden customers" will only be served when you get out from behind the desk to provide Roving Service. In this presentation and interactive panel discussion, Joan Giannone and representatives from several Library Systems will reveal the most common challenges they struggled with to implement roving. More importantly, they will share the best tips, practical approaches, tools and solutions they have used to overcome their challenges and better serve customers wherever they need assistance within their Library. Don't struggle to create the roving wheel! Instead, become comfortable and effective more quickly, avoiding some potholes in the road with the practical tips, effective approaches, experience and guidance provided in this valuable session. Tuesday, Feb. 27th, 3-4pm ET (12-1pm, PT) Mother Goose on the Loose with Betsy Diamant-Cohen - 1 hour AUDIO CONFERENCE Learn about the award-winning early literacy program, Mother Goose on the Loose. After a brief review of theories of learning based on findings in brain research, hear about the structure of Mother Goose on the Loose and how it combines language, books, illustration, music, movement, drama, and creative interaction to create an optimal learning environment. Experience program songs and rhymes created by Canadian music educator, Barbara Cass-Beggs. Connect the program components with best practices for developing school readiness skills. Learn how to incorporate all this into your own early childhood programs. Wednesday, Feb. 28th 3-4pm ET (12-1pm, PT) The Knowledge System in Society -- A Framework and Strategies for Librarians' New Role as a Knowledge Worker with Paul J. Graham The Knowledge System concept--most fully explained in sociological scholarship--presents a novel way to understand the current processes of a modern, rational, knowledge society: production, organization and use of knowledge. One of the special consequences of this newly formed society involves new divisions of labour, and new roles for the Librarian. These are not new names for traditional jobs, but new tasks and management streams for librarians to be active, invested participants. The presentation will be divided into two main areas: 1) describing the Knowledge System concept and its benefits and 2) providing practical strategies and advice for research participation. As this new role for librarians is not yet formalized in everyday practice, I will conclude with emphasis on spreading this particular research model to other libraries around Canada and the world. As a possible focus, we can use the "communities of practice" model to foster this development. 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